[Fedora-marketing-list] More on the millions

Marc Wiriadisastra marc at mwiriadi.id.au
Tue Jan 9 22:41:44 UTC 2007


I would say whats helped this a lot is the free media project.  I'm not
saying its the only thing but I think that has been one of the most
successful projects launched to help non users to experience Linux and
Fedora.

On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 23:17 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> "Red Hat's Fedora Core 6.0 Linux distribution has crossed the million 
> user milestone. Is it enough for the community-driven Linux distribution 
> to claim it's the most popular Linux version?
> 
> Let's go to the stats. According to Fedora Project statistics, Fedora 
> Core 6.0 has averaged 9.4 new installations every minute since the 
> release of Red Hat's community driven distribution in late October"
> 
> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3652771
> 
> "On average, Red Hat is seeing over 95,000 Fedora Core 6 installs per 
> week, which is a very high rate for an operating system, Linux or not. 
> And the numbers are growing as time progresses, with recent weeks above 
> 100,000 new installs and the Christmas and Hanukkah holiday week 
> accounting for 130,000 downloads. Those numbers do not count 
> installations from mirror sites on the Internet that distribute Fedora 
> Core, by the way. (You can see the stats for Fedora Core 6 downloads on 
> this page.)"
> 
> http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb010907-story07.html
> 
> Rahul
> 
> 




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